~ today ~

The blog set up is more or less finished. I’m really happy with the header, the photographs – that came out amazingly well (especially considering i’m not so good with The Gimp, which is what i was using to get it done). so now its just a case of filling it with information and writings… and time is the only one to fix that one!

Apart from sorting out the blog, and finishing a letter to my Grandmother, which i emailed to mom (who plays postie), i did very little today. its kinda hard to do stuff when a) you’ve still got a head full of cold and a rotten cough; and b) a bad night’s sleep. it really doesn’t help when the police batter the communal front door down at 5.30am. It scared the bejesus out of Michiel – I slept through it, of course – who woke me after he realised that it was the police coming for the idiot upstairs. although we both went back to bed after a cup of tea and a calming down session, the interrupted sleep and the rising time of 2pm did us no good at all – we have to get our sleeping patterns sorted back out, which I think will happen once Michiel gets used to not smoking.

I had an email from Vince the other day as well, offering shelving wood, and to bring it to us in a people carrier, which was good of him. the only proviso is that we have to go there to get it off the walls, which is fair enough. Michiel’s still thinking about that one: i hope he says yes because i can use the wood to build the raised beds i’ve set my heart on, not to mention possibly a cold frame and work bench and other goodies in the garden, and quite frankly, any other wood i get i would have to go and collect (which would mean a taxi fare). Oh well. have to wait and see – if there is one thing i do know, its not to push Michiel for an answer till he’s good n ready to give one.

So hopefully once i’ve got my wood i can start planning the garden and buy a spade and some seeds and some compost and start digging it all out. it’ll take time, but time is on my side – as long as i start fairly soon.

so my plan of action would seem to be:

1) mark out the beds.

2) dig out the grass (easier said than done: its evil couch grass)

3) build the first frames for the raised beds

4) fill with compost, and mix with soil

5) put additional frames on top if necessary.

and in between all that, start growing seedlings indoors. No idea what yet, that’s something else i have to decide. I’m collecting toilet rolls and egg trays like crazy though.

and on that note – its bedtime for me. a long day tomorrow: shopping, bill paying, and a treat – the chinese state circus, courtesy of Mom and Dad!

i quite liked the christmas doctor who, although i agree with Michiel – i prefer the darker, more adult Torchwood. its going to be interesting watching Doctor Who again after watching so much Torchwood, how the (lack of) adult stuff will feel. Btw if you haven’t yet watched Torchwood, i really would!!

being on the U.S. side of the pond, I.. er.. well my mate downloaded the Torchwood episodes, but we haven’t watched them .. yet 🙂 He’s been making them up on dvd’s with all of the declassifieds with them.

But then again, as Keth can attest to, I absolutely Love David Tennant and cannot wait for Series 3! But.. and there’s always a but, I also loved Christopher Eccleston as 9th Doctor and am also Very excited to see him on Heroes!

Christopher Eccleston has been in a *lot* of things. I think the first time i saw him was in a series called “Cracker”, about a Scottish psychologist working with the police, called Fitz (played by Robbie Coltrane), and Christopher Eccleston played a policeman who was killed by an insane guy. The episode also introduced the world to Robert Carlyle. There’s a link here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_%28UK_TV_series%29) but if you can find copies of these – this is going back about 10 years, at least, they’re well worth catching.

seriously, for me, it was the insane cheeriness, together with his northern accent, that did it for me with him. So delightful. Its something that David Tennant has (wisely i think) adapted and sort of continued.

I love Cracker! And I think I remember that particular episode as well. As for Robert Carlyle I love him! There was a rumor about a month ago where they were reporting that 10th Doctor was going to step down after series 3 and Robert Carlyle was going to be the 11th I have to admit, I was a little excited about it. Turns out to not be true, that Carlyle might be in an episode somewhere in the future but that’s it. I have a mini Carlyle DvD collection too – Trainspotting, Hamish MacBeth, Full Monty, Plunkett & Macleane, 51st State, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands – so far.

okay not only a movie whore, a brit movie whore.. LOL.. no i don’t think Robert Carlyle would work as the doctor. too serious, somehow.. thats my opinion anyway. Casting the Doctor is like casting James Bond a bit i think, there’s always someone who thinks that XX would be better than the guy they got to do it.

*sneaks one more comment in now that the mate is home its time for bed hehe*

Yes I admit, I’m a Brit movie/tele whore 🙂 Mind you most of my exposure to Brit tv comes from the BBCAmerica channel, which is a little behind. Examples are we will be getting Robin Hood in March of this year, same with Life on Mars Series 2 (oh I can’t wait for that one!) but they are also showing older comedies, like Hardware, Black Books and Spaced 🙂

And Robson Green is another one of my mini-obsessions – I got Wired in the Blood Season 1 on dvd for Christmas 🙂

I found you and I agree with someone above, your new home is very nice.
A garden! Are you thinking vegetable and herbs?
I love digging in the dirt, watching things grow, and the food always seems to taste more delicious than if I had bought it!
Whee!
hugs

yup, veg, herbs, fruit. i had a go at growing tomatoes a couple of years back but the local yobs pulled the stake supports out about a week before they were due to ripen… i ended up having to pick most of them before they went red (didn’t help that it was the first week in september either).. it all worked out ok in the end up, i just made green tomato chutney. i still got most of it in the fridge. LOL.

I would love to go the chickens/bees route as well but i just don’t have the room in the garden. I’d adore a cow as well (all that milk) but in the middle of manchester? fat chance. LOL.

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